Sometime in April in the year 1995, an odd message was posted on the Pink Floyd newsgroup website. It said something about how the poster had heard from some unknown persons in Los Angeles that when The Wizard of Oz is muted and played with the album, The Dark Side of the Moon, they appear to synch up. Most of the people who read this posting thought it was a ludicrous idea resulting from heavy drug usage (Savage). Then in 1997, a well-known Boston radio show burst the synchronicity onto the scene, and people everywhere went running to the video stores so they could rent the movie and try it for themselves (Scott).

Before putting it to the test, the first thing to decide is at what point in the movie is one supposed to start the album. There are various theories as to what is the best starting poi

Of course, since the discovery of this synchronicity, people have proposed that maybe other Pink Floyd albums synch up with different movies. The two most famous ones besides The Dark Side of the Rainbow are referred to as Alice-Wall, a combination of Alice in Wonderland and The Wall, and 2001-Echoes, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the second CD on Meddle (Scott). The reason this is important is because this is somewhat discounting to the possibility of The Dark Side of the Rainbow being more than a coincidence. The difference between it and the other synchronizations is that this one has occurrences during the entire span of the album and the entire theme of the album coincides with the movie; the others are very questionable and many of them may have only ten or fifteen coincidences, and not nearly as good as the ones in the original synchronicity at that.

As suggested earlier, the time span on The Dark Side of the Moon is only 42 minutes and 59 seconds, about half as long as The Wizard of Oz. Instead of stopping the movie right there, some fans offer the idea of putting the entire CD on repeat until the movie is over. It would be difficult enough to correlate an entire album with a movie in the first place, but to fix it so that it would run through the second time and still go hand in hand would be next to impossible. Others advise pausing the movie and putting on

“Breathe” starts at the exact same moment, then the album and film are in synch mode (Savage).

There are many things to consider if the band did this on purpose. First of all, where could they have got the bizarre idea to coincide an album and a motion picture together? Skeptics should consider how Jerry Garcia dubbed one of the songs on the Zabriskie Point soundtrack over a specific scene in that movie. Don Hall described it in the following way: “They had the love scene on a loop, and [Jerry] played live while the film was running…He played right to every single shot in the scene…It was miraculous…”. Consider also how easy it would actually be for a huge band like Pink Floyd to gain access to a film and a projector. They knew important people in the show-biz and had previously worked on a few soundtracks, namely More, Zabriskie Point and La Vallee (Wendland).

Many people doubt that if this was an intended synchronization, it would have been kept in the dark for so long with no one taking the credit for it. Pink Floyd has, after all, tended to be a little on the flashy side. For example, they put a blinking light on the packaging of another one of their CD’s, Pulse (Savage). Think about this though. Artists have often been criticized for their attempts at creative revolutions. If Roger Waters had revealed his secret when the album was first released, it may have been rejected by fans. He might have been called a poser for modeling an entire album after some children’s movie. It may not have been thought of as the phenomenon it is today; but instead, we might look back and say Pink Floyd was a no-talent band who had run out of ideas for their music and so desperately turned to some cheesy film for inspiration. Maybe people would then say that none of their work was original and they must have ripped it all off other inco

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